Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Why do good people do bad things?

How does entire population become, itself, a weapon of war?

Simply tell them what they want to hear, leave out any information that contradicts the vision you wish to propagate, and you will have a mass political animal that you can steer to almost any end, especially when you control the flow of information, i.e. the press.

As one famous Nazi Propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, put it, "What you want in a media system is ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity."

Deprive people of justice, of any meaningful power or participation in the power processes of society, then give them just one way to attain power and the average individual, starved for the ability to affect their environment, will blow the hell out of anything society tells him or her is the appropriate target.

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About Me

Short version: I'm not sure how much more eclectic a person can be but I am sure that a lot of individuals consider themselves to be more unique than most - a definite contradiction of course. I was born on the first day of the summer of love and I have been an activist, a geek, a hippie, a bit of a punk, a nomad, a sailor, and a bunch of stuff all in between. I have been a pagan, a buddhist, a zoroastrian, an atheist, blah blah. Labels aside, scanning my posts are a better guage of my interests than any paragraph I can write. Yet I am so much more. Aren't you? LONG VERSION